I knew this day would come. I knew it all the time. I even knew it would come very quickly. But still I am surprised that the day is already here. The day when I go home.
Sometimes even we the staff wonder how anyone could ever survive, physically or mentally, the crimes committed against them. Curiously enough, many of them do...
I admit it, I am a science nerd! I enjoy reading about new studies, analyzing the results, and sharing them with my equally nerdy friends - those who are not already tired of me always asking “Do you have any scientific evidence for this claim?"...
This week we saw a patient at the Family Support Center that left us feeling quite disturbed. It was a 24-year-old woman from a village quite far away from Tari who came to our clinic after having been severely assaulted by her husband.
“Do you want to come and see a bride price ceremony?” counselor Leonie asked us last week. Of course I, the project coordinator and the medical doctor Martina were immediately up for it.
My daily work in the Family Support Center often resembles more that of a teacher than a clinical psychologist. I give the staff weekly training on different mental health related topics and try to create effective learning tools and materials.
I was standing in the hallway of our clinic one day this week, chatting with my staff. We were about to go and have a training. Suddenly we heard a chilling scream from outside...
During the last weeks we have been hearing scratching from above our heads. A rat family has moved in to the attic of one of the expatriate houses. Late at night when the noise from the expats stops the rat party begins...
On Sunday a bunch of us expatriates decided to make a little trip to a nearby lake. We wanted to assess whether we could find a new Sunday walk route from the lake back to our compound...
